What is the creepiest thing you have ever experienced?

[Muhast]

Some of the scariest things are the times you are convinced you heard something, or saw someone but never are able to confirm it. Your mind will play tricks on you the rest of the night.

I remember just going outside to take the trash out when I was younger... It seemed like everytime I'd heard some noise when I'd turn my back and I'd never know who/what made the noise and I'd run back as fast as I could.
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The only real story I have on the matter: We were on our way back from somewhere ( I was 10 years old at the time) and it was dark out. We were driving up a hill right in front of the street we live on and we see a guy walking down the street with a hood over his head and something draped across his shoulder. As we got closer he stared right at the car and we realized it was a rifle or gun of some sort and he took off running. My dad called the police and they couldn't find the guy anywhere. Someone in my neighborhood called the police earlier reporting a possible break-in but they didn't find the guy at the time. So we figured he must have been hiding out and we happened to drive by and it spooked him. I was terrified all night long wondering if he'd recognize my face since i was right beside him when we passed by. I never saw him again and to my knowledge he was never arrested. I grew up in a pretty average neighborhood so things like this never really happened. It was pretty scary as a kid, I can't imagine what it must have been like for you guys to have someone like that actually in your house.

 

[Phoenix]

It was the night of my daughter's 11th birthday. We threw her a surprise party. I showed up with her and a slew of her friends were at the house and yelled surprise. Her eyes were huge.

At one point I needed to take 2 big bags of trash out to the dumpster. As I got close to the dumpster a man dressed all in black wearing a hoodie came right at me. His eyes were wild. I cannot describe it any other way.

I felt threatened so I threw the trash in the dumpster and I turned and faced him. He stood there with his fists balled up at his sides. I said, "Is there a problem?"

Next thing I know this guy drew his fist back. I figured I had just been asked to dance, so I hit him in the mouth, and I mean I hit him hard. He staggered back about 2 steps, but didn't go down. I won't lie, that scared me. I know how hard I hit him.

He looks at me again with those wild eyes. Now I'm the one with balled up fists, but my right hand was killing me. His mouth was bleeding. He put his hand up and wiped his mouth and stared at the blood. He just kept staring at the blood on his hand from his mouth.

Then he looked at me and walked away down the alley. He never said a single word to me the entire time. I have never seen him again. To this day, 7 years later I will not take the trash out to the alley after dark without my Maglite flashlight in my hands.

I figure he had to be high as a kite on something. I went back in the house and immediately put ice on my hand. Everyone thought I was kidding about the story until they saw my swollen hand.

BrianPaint still teases me about this story now and then.

wow. Sounds like you met the Undertaker (from WWE)





As for me, the creepiest thing for me was while growing up in Houston. I was about 12 at the time. Very late at night, like 2-3 AM, I woke up in my bedroom, and there was a round, green, glowing ball of light floating in my room. I saw it, and immediately covered myself with my sheets, etc., for a long time. I peeked out a few times and saw it still there. After quite a while, it was just gone. No clue what it was, and never saw it again.

 

[Yeagermeister]

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[danielofthesaints]

I think I speak for many of us when I ask what it felt like to punch Brainpaint? :

 

[MonsterD]

A fellow loon!
I've had so many odd experiences I thought it best to just leave it in the general sense. Ironically, I was truly paralyzed at 13 and know the actual feeling and it's odd to experience this kind which isn't the same. Your body has feeling, you just can't get it to act. Lifting your arm is like trying to lift a bus.

Glad I'm not alone in this odd-ball thing.

I have had it several times too. I have had insomnia since I was a kid and still do today. I wake up several times in a night sometimes lightly awaken like 10 plus times.

Anyways yeah the paralysis isn't a very common occurrence , it might happen like less than 10 times in a year, but years of having it I have gotten use to fighting it. You have to struggle mightily until you move one part of your body, and yeah you can have "false" awakenings before you really do move your body. I use to be terrified of it, but now I just think "great time to push my consciousness to the max again" It is like the most intense concentration and focus you can ever out forth for like 30 seconds of a minute plus. After you fully awake you are breathing really hard from the adrenaline you created and it is exhausting.

I have never had any weird lights or tremors during it but just darkness and hearing the outside noise.

 

[CliffnDallas]

When I was around Eight years old, my Grandfather died. That night I drempt he and I were sitting on the front steps of my house and he was talking to me. The next morning at breakfast my older sister told us that she had the weirdest dream. She woke up in her dream and heard someone talking. She opened the front door and saw me and grandpa sitting on the steps talking.

From the time I was around Six I had this reoccuring dream. I always drempt I was running across a big open lawn toward some low Gray buildings and there was noise and smoke every where and I was very scared, then I would wake up with a jolt. Then one day in Jr. Highschool in history class I was looking through a book and saw a photo. It showed a large open area with some low Gray buildings in the background and off to the left water with dark Black smoke.
The photo had been taken on a Sunday morning in December 1941. The 7th on Ford island in Pearl Harbor. I never had the dream again after that.

In 1995 I was spending Thanksgiving with my Sister in Willisville Arkansas. One evening me and my brother in law were watching TV when we heard a loud crash followed by a "scream" from their back yard. We ran outside (armed) and found that something had pryed part of the rear wall off a shed. I say pryed because there were no scratch marks on the wood and you could tell the nails had been pulled straight out from the top of the wall which was a good 10 feet off the ground.
We looked around the yard and heard some thing large moving away from the house heading back in to the woods. There was also a bad smell like a cross between a skunk and a wet dog. We DID NOT follow it.

A few years ago while I was checking a private club that is part of the hotel I work at. I looked up to see woman in a Red evening dress standing at the bar. This was at 3am when the club had been long closed. When I looked back she was gone. I searched the club but foiund no one. Also at the club I was playing around one night doing an EVP session, at one point I had sneezed. When I reviewed the recordings just after the sneeze you could hear what sounded like "Bless you'.

Some other weird stuff like finding a 18+ inch footprint in the woods, but those are the highlights.

 

[CanuckCowboysFan]

A fellow loon!
I've had so many odd experiences I thought it best to just leave it in the general sense. Ironically, I was truly paralyzed at 13 and know the actual feeling and it's odd to experience this kind which isn't the same. Your body has feeling, you just can't get it to act. Lifting your arm is like trying to lift a bus.

Glad I'm not alone in this odd-ball thing.

I'm confused. So when you're experiencing this, are you dreaming or awake? Does it have to do with anything dream related? Or are you just awake and can't move? How long does it last?

 

[vta]

I'm confused. So when you're experiencing this, are you dreaming or awake? Does it have to do with anything dream related? Or are you just awake and can't move? How long does it last?

I guess it's a state of being in between. I can see the room as it is. If I fell asleep with the TV on I see it. If a light is on in another room I see it, so it's not my memory of the room, but as it is. My eyes are open and I can see the room, but I can't move a thing. Not my head nor my body.

It's always accompanied with a sense of urgency that I'd better get my self under control because something is coming. I've seen man-like forms, heard grunts and growls and felt movement around me. Sometimes I catch it before it happens and snap awake, but on falling back asleep it keeps trying to happen and I have to just stay awake a while to get it to go away. Another odd thing is it normally doesn't happen when my wife is with me, (she stays at her moms some weekends) so it's not as frequent as when I was single, but it still happens.

 

[BlueStar3398]

Wow! It's time for me to go to bed and some of the stories on here are really scary!!

And I thought the time that the guy kept showing up behind my house staring at me through my windows was scary! That guy seriously terrified me! I got up at 5am one morning and there he was with his face pressed up against the French doors leading out to the patio. When I saw him, he just slowly backed away into the darkness. Then, one night at about 10pm, I was doing my final walk-through turning off lights and there he was again!! He was slowly strolling past my dining room windows staring at me. I couldn't see his face, only his dark silhouette. I called the cops both times and he was nowhere to be found. In daylight, you could see his footprints in the backyard where he was coming over my privacy fence. I have all the windows in the back of my house covered with shades that you can't see in now.

I still think it was one of my neighbors. The dark figure was the same height and build and wore the same Dockers type shorts and ballcap that my neighbor wears. That same neighbor was always driving slowly by my house gawking at me when I was out front. And it made no sense for him to drive by. Leaving to go out of the neighborhood was much closer to the other end of the street where he lives.

 

[tupperware]

Another cool thing is lucid dreaming, which I've only 100% pulled off once.

 

[CanuckCowboysFan]

I guess it's a state of being in between. I can see the room as it is. If I fell asleep with the TV on I see it. If a light is on in another room I see it, so it's not my memory of the room, but as it is. My eyes are open and I can see the room, but I can't move a thing. Not my head nor my body.

It's always accompanied with a sense of urgency that I'd better get my self under control because something is coming. I've seen man-like forms, heard grunts and growls and felt movement around me. Sometimes I catch it before it happens and snap awake, but on falling back asleep it keeps trying to happen and I have to just stay awake a while to get it to go away. Another odd thing is it normally doesn't happen when my wife is with me, (she stays at her moms some weekends) so it's not as frequent as when I was single, but it still happens.

Can you speak? Or get someone else to move you?

 

[MonsterD]

Can you speak? Or get someone else to move you?

Seems to be different for each of us. I can't open my eyes, and I only sorta dream that I was able to move my body, then I quickly am back to being conscious and not moving again. I see nothing but light through closed eyes if it is daylight, and I hear normally.

So no I can't speak and if someone moved you, I guess you are just non motile.

 

[Zaxor]

On a clear evening in Pampa, Texas My Father and my little brother and I are watching the Cowboys play a Monday Night Football game when out of the TV came a ball of light ...very slow moving and following no particular direction...meaning it went a little left...went a little to the right...went up and went down finally hit the full length mirror on a door and I guess bounced off and went at a 45 degree angle and went out the big picture window..none of us said anything for like 20 minutes till my little brother finally says what was that and my Dad said "What was what?" forgot all about it so much I thought it was a dream of mine till my brother brought it up about 30 years later...Also about 3 days after my Mom had died I was sleeping in my room and I felt her pat my knee I just somehow knew it was her and she was trying to comfort me...Never mention a word of it as I thought it was all in my head till one of my sisters told me how crazy sad she was after Mom died that she had felt Mom coming into her room while she was a sleep and pat her knee...I was like OMG you too that was 16 years after my had died that we talked about that.

 

[vta]

Can you speak? Or get someone else to move you?

I don't think so on both counts. I can't control when it happens and like I'd said, I'm usually alone when it does, so I couldn't test such a theory.

 

[vta]

Wow! It's time for me to go to bed and some of the stories on here are really scary!!

And I thought the time that the guy kept showing up behind my house staring at me through my windows was scary! That guy seriously terrified me! I got up at 5am one morning and there he was with his face pressed up against the French doors leading out to the patio. When I saw him, he just slowly backed away into the darkness. Then, one night at about 10pm, I was doing my final walk-through turning off lights and there he was again!! He was slowly strolling past my dining room windows staring at me. I couldn't see his face, only his dark silhouette. I called the cops both times and he was nowhere to be found. In daylight, you could see his footprints in the backyard where he was coming over my privacy fence. I have all the windows in the back of my house covered with shades that you can't see in now.

I still think it was one of my neighbors. The dark figure was the same height and build and wore the same Dockers type shorts and ballcap that my neighbor wears. That same neighbor was always driving slowly by my house gawking at me when I was out front. And it made no sense for him to drive by. Leaving to go out of the neighborhood was much closer to the other end of the street where he lives.

The worst sort of creepy. An actual person who can do something. If it's still happening and I were you I'd get some kind of surveillance camera and at least get some video of this jerk.

 

[BlueStar3398]

The worst sort of creepy. An actual person who can do something. If it's still happening and I were you I'd get some kind of surveillance camera and at least get some video of this jerk.

My boyfriend came over and put up motion detector lights and blinds on all the back windows. A house was built on the lot behind me where there used to be woods. Thankfully, that got rid of him. Although, the creepy neighbor did stop in front of my house one day asking where my boyfriend was. He was away working out of state at the time. He mentioned that he hadn't seen his car at my house in awhile.

 

[vta]

My boyfriend came over and put up motion detector lights and blinds on all the back windows. A house was built on the lot behind me where there used to be woods. Thankfully, that got rid of him. Although, the creepy neighbor did stop in front of my house one day asking where my boyfriend was. He was away working out of state at the time. He mentioned that he hadn't seen his car at my house in awhile.

You should have told him your boyfriend was at the gun range testing out his new automatic weapon.

 

[Muhast]

My wife has a strange thing that happens when she visits her grandparents.

It has actually happened 3 different visits now.

She will take a picture with her grandfather and EVERY TIME they take a picture together, no matter what the angle is or what room it is, there is a little "spirit orb" thing.

The first time we all just laughed, and figured it was a dust particle or something. So we re-took the picture without flash, and there it was again. We then swapped in her grandmother, and no spirit orb. I took a picture with him and it wasn't there either. So we just forgot about it. A few months later we went back to Fla to visit and took a picture in a different room and it appeared. The wierd thing was it's only when they take a picture together, no other combination. And if you take multiple pictures it will be on different sides of them. It's never in the same spot. We even tried taking the picture outside and the same thing happened.

Now we just call it "Casper'.

Pretty odd. Not really that creepy, seems harmless, but still strange.

 

[danielofthesaints]

Another cool thing is lucid dreaming, which I've only 100% pulled off once.

I do this pretty regularly. At least when I know I will get a good night's sleep. Once I enter my dream, I have to make sure I am in the dream, so I pull my fingers. Every time, my fingers stretch like I am gumbo or something. It's then where I start dreaming what I want to dream. Doesn't always work, but I have grown better at it. One time, I wanted to dream that I was the QB of the Dallas Cowboys, and I ended up only being the backup QB watching from the sidelines.

 

[jubal]

Woke up one night with the hair standing up on my neck,didn't hear anything,or see anything but on high alert for the longest,finally went back to sleep.
Years later I was in tween state and heard myself snore just before awaking and "the light came on"making me realize what it had been that woke me up.
Also did a late night trash run and coming back to the house an overwhelming feeling that something was gaining on me,I hit that back door making Bob Hayes eat dust. I was around 12yrs old.
The next time, I was parking with my girlfriend and this feeling came over me,I guess you could call it dread,panic,some one is watching,but I cranked up and threw gravel in whomever it was face. My girlfriend wanted to know why we left,I told her didn't like where we had stopped.